Their Eyes Were Watching God Page #3

speech-makin', I didn't marry her for that,

Brother Pastor,

Aswetouchthisflametothis matchwick,

Iet the Iight shine into the hearts

of all of you gathered here tonight,

(man) Amen,

- Let it shine, Iet it shine, Iet it shine!

(women) This Iittle Iight of mine

(all) I'm gonna Iet it shine

This Iittle Iight of mine

I'm gonna Iet it shine

This Iittle Iight of mine

I'm gonna Iet it shine

Let it shine, Iet it shine, Iet it shine

- How d'you Iike being Mrs, Mayor?

- It's all right, I reckon,

All right?

You ought to be glad,

I think it keep us in a kinda strain,

- I'II be glad when it's over,

- Over?

Girl, I ain't even got started good,

I'm gonna be a big voice,

And you ought to be glad,

I'm gonna make a big woman out of you,

- That's your move?

- Oh, I don't know about that,

- What? That Iook Iike a good move to me,

- Yeah, it Iook Iike a good move to me too,

One, two, three,,,

Look Iike your husband need

some new eyeballs for Christmas,

My eyeballs is just fine, OK? My eyeballs

is just fine, You cheatin', that's all,

(chatter continues)

Janie! Janie,

Get in here, You got some work to do,

Ma'am,

What do you mean, tipping your hat

to her? She ain't the queen of England,

Everybody can't be Iike you, Jody,

Folks is bound to Iaugh and play,

- Who don't want to Iaugh and have fun?

- Well, you make Iike you don't,

If they'd Iaugh Iess and work more,

maybe they'd have something,

But no, but they want to work day in

and day out Iike beasts of burden,

and don't end up with nothin' but a

full belly and somewhere to Iie down after,

- Do you expect me to be Iike that?

- No,

But I don't want to be classed off

from my friends, and my neighbors,

You don't Iike me being mayor,,,

,,,do you?

- Joe, we was going places,,,

- I ain't even got started good here yet,

and you already want to run off?

(man) Oh, she gonna run off!

Looks Iike big Mr, Mayor and the missis

done had a fallin' out,

Here, You put this on,

What? Wrap my head up

Iike an old woman?

- How come?

- 'Cause I done told you to,

You are the mayor's wife, Remember?

Janie, Janie!

Janie,

Whoo, what the devil got into them?

- What the hell you doing?

- What the hell you think?

- Janie!

- Can't Iive with you no more,

Where you gonna go? Oh, now,

who the hell would ever have you?

You had nothing when I met you, and you'II

have Iess than nothing when you Ieave me,

Janie,

Nobody would marry you, Not now,

- Get off me!

- I'II Iet you go, But you gonna hear me!

AII you'II end up as

is somebody's good-time gal,

You know, the kind that men use

Now, you go,

Shame, shame, don't you know, Lord

Yes, my Lord, I know, Lord

Shame, shame, don't you know, Lord

(Janie) Every morning

I flung open the window to another day,

And every day had a store in it,

I wasn't petal open any more,

I had an inside and an outside now,

And I knew how not to mix 'em,

Days seemed to just run together,

We had us a routine,

Breakfast at dawn,

Lunch at noon,

And dinner by six,

Eatonville had plenty to be proud of,

While I was livin' a good life,

it was Joe's life,

Not mine,

Now, if we can stop this boy

cheatin' once in a while,,,

- You done had 20 years,,,

- Wait a minute,,,

Boy, what is wrong with you? You got

a sandbag where your brain should be?

- No, sir,

You can't mess up all my profit, droppin',,,

- Brother Mayor,

How 'bout cuttin' me a plug

of that fine tobacco there?

(Joe) AII right,

I'II get that for you, Sam,

Lord have mercy! Looky here,

Your wife gone buck wild

with that plug cuttin',

You be round this store till you old as

Methuselah, You still won't Iearn nothin',

Don't stand there a-studyin' me, with your

pop eyes and your Iittle narrow behind,

Quit mixin' up my doings with my Iooks,

then,

You outta your mind, talkin' Iike that,

I'm mayor,

You the one started it,

Don't be gettin' insulted about your Iooks,

You give me no children,

Now you an old Iady, Nearly 40,

Ain't nobody Iookin' at you, old as you is,

Well, I ain't 40, I'm only 38,

You ways past 50,

Let's talk about that,

And this big fat belly you got,

You talk a whole Iotta brag, Joe, But ain't

nothing big about you but your voice,

Hell, pull down your britches,

Iook Iike you hit the change of Iife,

- What you say to me?

- You heard her, You ain't blind,

I'd rather be shot dead

than hear that about my own self,

What you say to me?

(Phoebe) Janie!

Joe gived you everything you could want,

You're not happy

because you expect too much,

(Janie) Something fell off the shelf

inside me,

It was Joe,

He tumbled down and shattered,

(labored breathing)

(Joe) Doctor say that I'm dyin',

I guess you come to watch,

Jody,

Maybe I ain't been

such a good wife to you,

But you gave me everything

a woman could ever dream of havin',

And I thank you,

But Jody, you and me

done been together now for 20 years,

And you don't know me half at all,

I know you,

You changed from that Jody

I run off down the road with,

I wanted to keep a house with you

in a wonderful way,

but you wasn't really

satisfied with me the way I was,

I built a whole town for us,

- But that ain't good enough for you,

- It was just that my own feelings

had to be squeezed and crowded out of me

to make room for yours in me,

BIame everything on me,

I don't Iet you show me no feelin', huh?

Janie, that's all I ever wanted,

Ain't tryin' to blame nothing on you, Joe,

But all this bowin' down and obedience,

It just ain't what I run off with you for,

Shut up!

Shut up,

Even now, you got to die

with me bein' obedient,

Instead of Iettin' me Iove you,

I hope,,,

that thunder and Iightnin',,,

kill you,

Get outta here,

Get Iost! (gasps)

Jody?

Poor Jody,,,

Sittin' in that rulin' chair

was hard for you too,

(Janie) Whatever folks

thought of Joe while he was livin',

they turned out for his funeral,

and cried over him,

'Cause whether they liked him or not,

they knew he had been a good man,

and that his passin' was a great loss,

I felt the sadness too,

But alongside the sadness,

I was feelin ' something else,

I was feelin ' free,

There's a new day coming

Everything gonna be turning over

Everything gonna be turning over

Where you gonna be standing

when it comes?

There's a new day coming

Everything gonna be turning over

Everything gonna be turning over

Where you gonna be standing

when it comes?

For far too many years

I been marching, singing and talking

Doing things I thought

would make me free

Why, people halfway around the world

They been fighting

and dying and bleeding

Now it seems that they are gonna be

There's a new world coming

Everything gonna be turning over

Everything gonna be turning over

Sun feels so good, don't it?

Joe's been dead almost a year,

And Amos Hicks got a pretty good job now,

(Janie giggles)

I ain't thinkin' about no Amos!

Shoot, I'm enjoyin' my freedom too much,

Janie, don't Iet nobody hear you say that,

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